Tag: OITP Advisory Committee

Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to open a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on ensuring the Open Internet. This marks (another) beginning in our work to advocate for enforceable rules that protect equitable access to online information. The American Library Association will actively engage–with our members, with our library…

Often the first step in preparing a retirement celebration is to ask colleagues and friends to share stories about the person retiring. It’s not often that you receive more stories than can possibly be incorporated into a two minute speech at the goodbye and good luck party.

This was definitely the case when we announced Bob Bocher’s retirement from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to our various committees and friends of the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). I ended up with enough for several retirements and am hardly going to be able to do justice to the many well-wishers, and hand-wringers at-the-thought-of-losing-Bob’s-expertise contingent. So I’m going to need some extra space…

Most often people asked at the end of their email, “Will Bob still stay involved with OITP?”

Fortunately we do not have to worry. Bob will continue on as an OITP Fellow and we are already rubbing our hands together thinking of the things we can send his way.

Vivian Pisano, Chair of the OITP Advisory Committee in 2009-2010, retires today as Chief of Information Technology at the San Francisco Public Library. OITP, just as the other entities in ALA, depend on dedicated, knowledgeable members such as Vivian to accomplish its work. “Pleasure” seems to be the watchword in…